Hose-supporter



J. W. CROUCH.

HOSE SUPPORTER.

APPLICATION man res. 9. 1917.

1,342,666. PatentedJune 8,1920.

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HOSE-SUPPORTER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 8, 1920.

Application led February 9, 1917. Serial No. 147,531.

To all whom t may concern:

Be itknown that I, JOHN W. CRoUoH, a citizen of the United States, residing .in the city of St. Louis and State of Missouri, have invented a certain new and useful Hose- Supporter, of which the following is a specification. v

This invention relates to improvements 1n hose-supporters,y and more particularly to hose-supporters adapted for use by children.

The objects of my invention are, first, to provide an improved hose-supporter sov constructed and adapted to retain itself on the person of a wearer preventing the hose gripping straps from buckling and permitting the hose of the wearer to slip down on the limbs during bending movements.

A further object of the invention is to provide an adjustable elastic hip-strap threaded through two hip-plates which terminates in depending ends for supporting hose gripping devices.

A further object of my invention relates to an improved hose-supporter in which an adjustable elastic hip-strap acts in conjunction with the hose-supporter straps and shoulder straps through connecting hipplates.

With the above and other objects in view, the invention consists in certain new and novel arrangement and combination of parts as will fully appear in the following specification and finally pointed out in the claims hereto appended. v

Referring to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification wherein like characters of reference denote similar parts throughout the several views Figure 1, is a partly perspective view of a hose-supporter constructed in accordance with my invention.

Fig. 2, is a detail of one ofthe hip-plates.

Referring to the drawings, the reference character 1 designates the non-elastic shoulder straps which cross one another at the back of the wearer near the shoulder-blades in a manner much like an ordinary pair of Suspenders. Each strap is adapted to be slidably threaded through an opening 2 in the upper edge of the hip-plates 3-3. One end of each shoulder-strap 1 is adapted to be provided with adjustable buckles 4 through which the opposite end of each strap is adapted to pass, to shorten or lengthen the shoulder straps to lit the various sizes of children, as is manifest.

The shoulder-straps 1-1 may, if desired, be sewed at the crossing point. It will be here observed that the shoulder-straps are free to slide back and forth in the openings 2 of hip-plates 3 3, during the usual or unusual movements of the wearer, thus rendering them very comfortable upon the person of the wearer. rl`he free ends of each shoulder-strap 1 may also be sewed to each other, if desired, or they may be left to hang loose, as illustrated.

The hip-plates 3-3 it will be observed, are each provided with a side opening 5, the lower opening 6, and the obliquely disposed opening 7. One edge of each obliquely disposed opening 7 is provided with a plurality of prongs 8. The objects of the above-mentioned openings and prongs will be manifest hereinafter.

The most essential feature of my invention resides in an elastic hip-strap 9 terminating at each end in 'a hose-supporting strap 10. Each end of this hip-strap 9 it will be observed, as illustrated, in the drawings, is threaded, through the slotted openings 5, 7 and 6 of their respective hip-plates. Each end or hose-supporting strap 10 is adapted to extend a suitable distance below each hip-plate 3 to permit of sliding adjustment through the openings 5, 7 and 6 of each hip-plate 3. This arrangement of adjustment of the hip-strap 9 permits the use of one size of hose-support to various sizes of children, as is manifest.

Suitable hose-gripper straps 11-11 are each fixed to an adjustable buckle 12, through which buckles are adapted to pass the free ends of the hose-supporting straps 10, as illustrated in the figure. The lower extremity of each hose-gripper strap 11 is provided with a suitable hose-fastener 13.

It will be observed that by having the buckles 12 slidably adjustable on theA hosesupporting straps 10 it permits of up and down adjustment of the hose-gripper straps 11 upon the hose-supporting straps 10.

Suspender ends lbmay, if desired, be fixed at the front to buckles 4 and ends 15 at the back where the' shoulder straps 1, 1 cross each other. These ends 14 and 15 are shown in dotted lines, as they may be employed or left off at the discretion of the maker, and as I do not consider this a new and patentable feature.

The application of the device to the person of a wearer is as follows:

The shoulder-straps 1 1 are placed over the shoulders of the wearer, as would ordinary suspenders. When the device has been so positioned upon the person of the wearer, it is evident that the buckles 4 will face the front of the wearer and Vthat the hip-plates 3--3 will be positioned upon the hips of the wearer, the hip-strap 9 passing around the back of the wearer. It will thus be seen that the hose-supporting straps 1l will extend downwardly from each hip along the limb to the top of the hose to be supported by means of the hose-fasteners 13.

Now, it will be observed and understood that by my novel arrangement and combination of parts, the hose-supporting straps 10-10 and the hose-gripper straps 11-11 cannot buckle during the bending movements of a child and slip downward upon the limbs. To the contrary, the elastic hose- A supporter straps 10--10 andthe hose-gripper straps 11-11 must stretch during bending movements of the child due to the hipstrap arrangement which, togetherwith thev shoulder straps, so positions the hip-plates as to render them practically immovable, thus causing the elastic in the hose-supporter straps 10 and the hose-gripper straps 11 to stretch and draw upon the hose instead of buckling and permitting the hose to slip downward upon the limbs, as is the usual case with the present type of childrens hosesupporters.

From the foregoing description, it will be seen, that I provide a hose-supporter that is highly efficient for the purpose intended, easily adjustable, composed of very few parts, and comparatively cheap in manufacture.

The many advantages of the herein described hose-supporter will readily suggest themselves to those skilled in the art to which it appertains.

I am aware that variousminor changes may be made in the details of construction,

carried by each arm loop of the sh'ouldery straps adaptedto be positioned approximately over each hip joint of the wearer, a hip strap having threaded connection with said hip plates for retaining the hip plates in their adjusted position over the hip joints of the wearer, the free ends of said hip strap adapted to depend from said hip plates to form supporting straps, and hose gripping means adjustably carried by said supporting straps` directly below the hipplates. f

2. In a hose supporter .for children, the combination of a Vpair of shoulder straps each provided with an adjusting buckle, said straps being arranged in cross relation with each other so .las to form `two arm Vloops through which the arms of the wearer are adapted to pass in positioninnr the straps on the shoulders of the wearer, a hip plate movably depending from 4each shoulder strap loop and adapted to be positioned-upon the'- wearer approximately over each hip, a hip strap having connection with each hip plate, hose gripping means adjustably carried by each. end of the hip strap,-the aforesaid hip plates being capable of adjustment, along the hip strap for positioning and retaining the hip plates over the hip joints of the wearer to cause the hose gripping means to conform to the curve of the body when stooping to prevent the hose gripping means from slackening or buckling and permitting the hose to slip down.

In testimony whereof I lhave hereunto signed my name to the specification.

JOHN W. CROUCH. 

